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… species are diploids and have two sets of chromosomes, one from each parent. In contrast, many crops have multiple sets … For the highly polyploid sugarcane, an international team of researchers has successfully assembled a first … been hampered by the crop’s highly polyploid genome, which makes sequencing and assembly of the genome extremely …

… reveals the microbial community involved in a bioremediation effort. The Science In 1999, the Environmental Protection … of several communities in New Mexico via leakage from a local dry-cleaner. Researchers  identified two … the project are available on the  JGI Genome Portal .) The team has also been able to discover additional microbes that …

… David Hibbett of Clark University fills us in on the kind of decay that makes shiitake mushrooms special. This week, he and 39 …

… help improve crop yields.  The Science The fire moss Ceratodon purpureus is a short plant with a complex genome . Now, … learn the value of their item. Part of that pleasure comes from finally having an answer to the question, “Why bother … question. In a recent Scientific Advances article , a team led by McDaniel and his former graduate student Sarah …

… Nanohaloarchaeota cultures reveal they are symbionts and not free-living organisms. The Science Researchers … interactions. Using metagenomes recovered directly from environmental samples and cultivated microbes, … to thrive in polar ecosystems. The work by Cavicchioli’s team sheds light on the range of archaeal symbiotic …

… Through advances in sequencing technologies and computational approaches, more and more virus sequences are being recovered and identified from environmental samples (metagenomes). However, the … the host organism. As reported in Nature Biotechnology , a team from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Joint Genome …

… For the first time, a team has comprehensively described host-virus dynamics in a … their host indefinitely. Now, in studying a microbial mat from Cone Pool in Mono County, California, scientists have … in this mat. The team thinks that the piggybacking strategy makes sense in a terrestrial environment with low mobility. …